Keshena man sentenced for striking wife with floor lamp, aiming rifle at her

GREEN BAY - A Keshena man will spend 18 months in prison for trying to shoot his wife and breaking a floor lamp over her.

Shawn Sanapaw, 38, was sentenced this week in U.S. District Court in Green Bay. Chief District Judge William Griesbach also ordered Sanapaw to spend three years on supervised release after his prison term.

Sanapaw pointed a rifle at the woman on Sept. 29, 2017, and tried unsuccessfully to fire it, and he broke the metal lamp by hitting her with it, according to court records. He was angry because she had failed to give him a ride home, court records say.

Sanapaw pleaded guilty to the assault in Menominee Tribal Court and served a tribal sentence for the offense before going into federal custody in June.